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[Brian Schott <brian.schott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

When you bundle the image, make sure you remove the /var/lib/cloud directory.  It contains lock files and a local cache from the first time it was run.  

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Brian Schott, CTO
Nimbis Services, Inc.
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On Jul 24, 2013, at 11:00 PM, "Jake G." <dj_dark_junglist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks Scott!
> 
> I have removed cloud-init from my instance and enabled config-drive in the nova.conf file.
> 
> Anything else I should take notice of?
> 
> From: Scott Moser <smoser@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Jake G. <dj_dark_junglist@xxxxxxxxx> 
> Cc: Dean Troyer <dtroyer@xxxxxxxxx>; "openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 10:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Image prep. cloud-init user configuration help.
> 
> On Wed, 24 Jul 2013, Jake G. wrote:
> 
> > I got the user correct now I am wondering why this is nessasary for my environment.
> > I am not using Amazon EC2 services so why would I need to get metadata from there API?
> >
> > Can someone explain?
> 
> Cloud-init uses the "datasource" of the EC2 Metadata service, that
> Openstack provides a workalike for.
> That metadata service has things like "instance-id" and "hostname" that
> are useful.  cloud-init uses instance-id for "run-once-per-instance"
> functionality.
> 
> cloud-init also gets user-data from the datasource, and that is very
> useful for initializing images with information provided at launch time by
> the user.
> 
> If you enable config-drive in openstack, then cloud-init will find the
> same data above from the config-drive, and wont bother looking for the ec2
> metadata service.
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
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